Management Research

Contents: Preface. 1. Role of marketing research. 2. Policy and management research. 3. Management training and research development : Indian context. 4. Policy and management research in the CGIAR system. 5. The role of culture in knowledge management. 6. Qualitative research in international business. 7. Management orientation and decision making. 8. Research design and methods. 9. Manaement: authority and responsibility. 10. Inter-firm relationships in the telecommuications industry. 11. Planning and management of short duration, executive development programmes. 12. Community resource management. Bibliography. Index.

Managing in all business areas and organizational activities are the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accompoishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.

Because organizations can be vieed as systems, manaement can also be defined as human action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system.

The present book entitled Management Research deals with all the aspects, concepts and issues of management research. The text are arranged in lucid form and written in simple colloquial English.